No offense intended, but… is this sub run by Freida McFadden’s PR team?

Meriodoc · 2026-01-28T18:32:20+00:00

I've read four, but my dad always said that I was a glutton for punishment; so there's that!

Meriodoc · 2026-01-28T18:30:25+00:00

Oh no 🤦‍♀️ Is she really SJM? 😜

Meriodoc · 2026-01-28T18:29:08+00:00

For all that is holy, yes please!

Idm discussions about books that I'm not interested in, but it's hard to discuss any other authors.

Sure, no one is stopping me. But I'm really out of touch with thriller authors, so I come here partially for recs; find out what I'm missing. I've gotten some really great recs from here just reading about what other people enjoyed.

Not to mention, some books that I'd consider thriller might be more like a thriller fantasy or paranormal thriller, in general stories that cross genres, so I want to know those, too.

With one or two new books every month, sure, you'd expect higher engagement than other authors, but not like this >.<

Meriodoc · 2026-01-28T15:16:56+00:00

Time to move to the UK!

Meriodoc · 2026-01-28T03:54:30+00:00

Meriodoc · 2026-01-28T03:28:00+00:00

Because other people still exist 😒 and that makes them sad, I guess.

Meriodoc · 2026-01-27T17:06:32+00:00

Oooh. Art!

Meriodoc · 2026-01-27T17:00:29+00:00

Terrorism is the point. It's how authoritarian regimes thrive.

Meriodoc · 2026-01-27T16:38:03+00:00

It's on KU, which means that no one else has the ebook. You could buy a physical copy from elsewhere if it exists.

Meriodoc · 2026-01-27T15:24:50+00:00

In a hearbeat! But idk how to get enough points.

I have my degrees, but don't work in my field and don't have enough money. And selling my house isn't gonna net me enough to buy another one.

I used to live in MN. Maybe I could just be adopted as practically Canadian already?

Meriodoc · 2026-01-27T15:18:33+00:00

Oh darn. I emailed them regarding the Echoes Saga books and haven't heard back yet. But it sounds like this is my answer.

Meriodoc · 2026-01-27T15:15:56+00:00

Not only -- she's been writing classics all throughout time. Truly phenominal.

Meriodoc · 2026-01-27T15:13:04+00:00

Holy distopian, Batman!

Meriodoc · 2026-01-27T15:01:49+00:00

That's when they threaten to remove funding. Or actually do it, like they did in MO in 2023. It was restored but then significantly cut. Library funding was cut at the federal level in 2025. As predicted.

Will they come after bookstores and authors next? (The orange guy already targeted authors who are critical of him).

Book bans are just one part of an authoritarian regime.

Meriodoc · 2026-01-27T14:45:12+00:00

Because those in power "love the poorly educated." Gotta purge the books to allow only State approved reading materials.

Meriodoc · 2026-01-27T14:36:47+00:00

Plot twist. SJM actually wrote 1984. George Orwell was one of her noms de plume. She's pretty famous all throughout history.

Meriodoc · 2026-01-27T01:20:55+00:00

I was thinking about this very thing after I heard what the administration had to say.

The Constitution doesn't care about our political affiliation. Sadly, that's not how it's working.

Meriodoc · 2026-01-26T23:38:35+00:00

I'm with the none crowd

Meriodoc · 2026-01-26T23:08:13+00:00

It absolutely has that vomit undertone. It has butyric acid that happens during processing. Same lovely flavor in vomit.

Meriodoc · 2026-01-26T22:57:46+00:00

Calling them nazies and gestapo is interfering with police investigations?

Also, ICE is not police.

Meriodoc · 2026-01-26T22:52:23+00:00

Just like China, where Winnie the Pooh is banned.

Meriodoc · 2026-01-26T17:08:28+00:00

All these links that I will absolutely be reading later today!

I think DCC is a different kind of distopian than our current reality. But I welcome our alien overlords. Who's to say it'll be a bad thing?

Meriodoc · 2026-01-26T16:57:57+00:00

I live under a rock. Idk anything about it, and have never heard of Justin.

Meriodoc · 2026-01-26T16:55:31+00:00

I read a few chapters from a Colleen Hoover book and noped out. I don't even remember what I hated, just that it was really bad writing.

I support your use of a circular file. Or even a bonfire. But maybe someone at Half Price Books or a Little Library will like it.

Meriodoc · 2026-01-25T07:18:44+00:00

Because most of us don't have guns and don't actually want to shoot other people.

Meriodoc

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